Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for all users (hosts, presenters, participants, and administrators)

I've not heard of any change to add Red Hat as a Host Add-in. It all depends on how many customers ask for that as an option. I've not had any of my government customers ask and none of them are running Red Hat as a desktop OS...they run Mac or Windows. But I am sure there are exceptions but the host add-in is developed for the largest customer audience and always subject to additions. A host can run a meeting if they are willing to forgo advanced audio options, file sharing and desktop sharing. Other options are to run Ubuntu in a virtualized manner on Red Hat...not fabulous but it works when there is not other option.

Adobe Connect Add-in is focussed on the main operating systems that people would use for conducting meetings. Surveys tell us Windows, Mac and Ubuntu are the desktop OS platforms with the largest share and that is where the investment dollars are focussed. I've not heard of any plans to expand the options to include SuSe or RedHat to date. It's a matter of resources and support for each platform. As the market numbers and customer requests arrive for this then product teams make decisions accordingly. I'll pass on these requests.

In contrastto the statistics,Linuxhas more than5% of this market share and has onlyasingle version for theaddin. That was onlydeveloped becauseof the formal requestmadeby the Brazilian government, where the companyI work,actively participated.

Soon there will beabig pressurefor a Linux version ofConnectApplication Server, (as theFlashMediaServeralready hasthe Linux version), due to the newmarket (the area of education), thatisveryinterested inthis valuable tool (Adobe Connect), but is synonymous withLinux....

AnywayI do not caretheirarguments, becausethis isaquestion of programming relatively easy tosolve, agood Linux developer will be happy tocarrymoreoneversion of theaddin.

I did not mean to make you sad! And I was not speaking on behalf of Adobe either. I have been in the software business for 25 years and was just sharing how all software companies decide on what platforms to develop for. It's really as simple at looking at the major platforms businesses, educational institutions and governments use on the desktop. Now, there alre ALWAYS exceptions like a large deal that requires a platform and then the company makes a decision as to the profit and potential if they go ahead. They have to consider the deal as well as the on-going support costs of that platform. That also includes the training and development resources required to support the new client. So, it is multi-facited and not as simple as looking at market share.

So, yes, if a major customer came forward and asked for a Red Hat Adobe Connect Host or Server version then it would be considered. Always! Again, it all depends on many factors around supporting the platform. I'd love to see a non-Windows version of the Connect Server. I'd be first in line to use it!

so this isn't an issue of "Supporting" another operating system. Its just a matter of Adobe hiring compitent engineers to actually do meaningfull work. I present to you the whole 30 minute ordeal of me getting this to work.

To explain the commands you are going to extract the deb file that gives you two archives that we care about

data.tar.gz which is the two files and control.tar.gz

you extract data.tar.gz to the right place ( it places the files in /usr/local , bonus points to adobe for not using the correct path of /usr/local/bin )

if you extraced the control.tar.gz you would find three files which contain the installation scripts. The relevent parts are included above.

If you need an RPM file it is easy enough to build one from these commands. Prehaps you can walk across the office to the people to package the flash-player rpms and have then instruct you on how to do it.

Dan. from your perspective and from the customer view I totally understand and agree it should be easy to do.

However, it is about resources assigned, customer demand for this option, tech support folks trained on this, call center folks trained and documentation created/maintained. So, it is a lot more than what you describe. It really is a matter of priorities and customer demand. I'll pass your request on to management.

I wish it was as easy as asking the Flash Player team to do this. We, on the Connect side of the busieness, are like many other "users" of the Flash Player technology and reside in different divisions and it is not so easy to do as you say. Like most software companies, each division has their own priorities and funding. I share your frustration.

I do not work in development and my office is in my home office outside DC. The developers are in California, India and elsewhere around the world literally. So, I would not know who to hand the request to! :-)

I will send this to product management with my recommendations that we do this. That's the best I can do!

I know that Red Hat would love us to do that so you may be on to something and your comments are helpful.

I got it working (passes the "Test Meeting Connection" page) under 64bit F13. YMMV. No warranty that it will not format your hard drive or be mean to kittens. And if you do not understand the commands, I recommend installing the supported Ubuntu on a VirtualBoxOSE VM.

I missed Dan's post when I figured out how to do the install, his is probably a bit cleaner than mine. Upgrading to F15 is on my todo list.

I setup my work's AdobeConnect Pro in my XP VM and tried to connect to my meeting from Fedora 13 and sadly it just hangs with the "Loading Adobe Connet" window, so F13 is probably a no go (and I'm not going to persue it much further until I upgrade to Fedora 15).

Do you recall which version of libcurl you built from source? I have libcurl-7.20.1-5.fc13 installed and received the error below with the same behavior that BuccaneerBill described. I built libcurl 7.21.6 because that was the version listed on an Ubuntu 10 package website, but that had the same behavior.

./connectaddin: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by ./connectaddin)

Since Adobe's site mentions that Red Hat Linux and SuSE are supported, wouldn't be easy to just give some instructions (e.g. "Unpack the .DEB file, unpack the data.tar.gz file, find the "connectaddin" file and copy it to the _____ directory. Restart your browser.") Seems simple enough, right?

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for all users (hosts, presenters, participants, and administrators)

Obviously, an RPM file would be ideal, but just the suggestion above would be of great benefit just by itself. Otherwise, there's no support for (or ability to use) Adobe Connect for Red Hat or SUSE Linux. By the way, with the introduction of "Unity" Ubuntu has dropped in popularity, apparently.

Well, not quite true. While there is no host add-in for RHEL or SuSe today, they can use the browser to host a meeting but they cannot use certain host add-in functions like screen sharing. They can attend any Connect meeting. So, it's limited functionality but they surely can do much. Ubuntu host add-in was developed for a particularly large customer that justified the development costs.

Much has happened since this thread began. A partner will be taking over development of the Host Add-in for RHEL and SuSe. I don't have any details to share yet but stay tuned. There will be a host add-in for RHEL!

When we get details, we'll share. And of course anything is subject to change as things progress.

What I have a hard time understanding is how Adobe can make one flash executable that works on all linux platforms without specifically supporting any one distribution, and yet there's a big difficulty with delivering a Connect addin that works the same way. Mozilla does this, Oracle/Sun does this, Apache/OpenOffice does this...

So the question is: do we need to keep coming to user forums to learn how to repackage this for general usage, or will Adobe make it easier? Do we, the users and linux developers have permission to repackage the Connect Add-in if Adobe won't devote any resources to doing it?

In case you were not aware, Adobe conducted a major reorg and realignment of resources in December, 2011. Many resources were eliminated and layoffs announced publicly. The Adobe Connect team was reduced. I left Adobe for a better opportunity to use my talents elsewhere. I do not know if this will ever happen. You would need to keep asking in the forum for support of Red Hat. I have moved on to another large software company supporting enterprise content management. It seems the web conference market is becoming highly commoditized and in many cases there are free web conference services that rival Adobe's. So, the focus by many companies will be toward cloud based services and not on-premise solutions. Perhaps that is why no Red Hat support? Not sure. It's all based on product profitability, customer demands, product direction, resources and money.